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Milton market report PO4 8, Southsea
The PO4 8 (Milton) house price history in full, 1995 to 2026, in cash and in today's money. This page is built from the public record and nothing else: 8,583 completed sales registered with HM Land Registry in PO4 8 (Southsea) since 1995, plus current ONS rental figures. There are no valuations, estimates or asking prices in it.
Sales recorded to 2026; rents are ONS figures for May 2026. The page rebuilds with each monthly release.
In short: the middle 2026 sale in PO4 8 (Southsea) came in at £290,000, out of 98 registered, up 15% on five years earlier, and the mean stands at £289,500, and by floor area homes here have averaged about £3,260 per square metre over the last five years. The record behind it is 8,583 completed sales lodged with HM Land Registry since 1995, monthly refreshed, with no valuations or asking prices anywhere in the figures.
PO4 8 is one sector of PO4 (Southsea): a handful of streets, and the most local view the sold record can give. The price of that locality is lumpier charts, because each year's median rests on fewer sales.
Where PO4 8 sits
Shaded by median price on the same scale as the average prices map. Click any shape to open it on the live map with every sale plotted at its address, or zoom in past street level to see the sold homes right here.
What a home in PO4 8 sells for
98 sales were registered in PO4 8 in 2026, and the middle one of them, the median, went for £290,000. The mean works out at £289,500, practically level with it: prices here bunch tightly around the middle.
House prices per square metre in PO4 8
Measured by floor area, the last five years of PO4 8 sales average about £3,260 per square metre. Price per square metre is the fair way to compare a one-bed flat with a four-bed house, and it comes from the Energy Performance Certificate on each sold home.
England and Wales as a whole trade at a £285,000 median, leaving PO4 8 2% above the national figure.
A typical PO4 8 home, priced year by year (1995 to 2026)
The cash median beside its inflation-adjusted twin (ONS CPIH). The adjusted line answers the harder question, whether homes really got dearer. Hover for the figures; the legend toggles each series.
See this chart as a table
| Year | Median (cash) | Median (today's £) | Sales |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | £290,000 | £290,000 | 98 |
| 2025 | £270,000 | £276,457 | 220 |
| 2024 | £270,000 | £287,065 | 223 |
| 2023 | £280,000 | £307,652 | 177 |
| 2022 | £285,000 | £334,195 | 241 |
| 2021 | £252,500 | £319,698 | 272 |
| 2020 | £230,000 | £298,430 | 182 |
| 2019 | £230,000 | £301,475 | 197 |
| 2018 | £225,000 | £299,929 | 224 |
| 2017 | £232,500 | £317,107 | 261 |
| 2016 | £200,000 | £279,802 | 295 |
| 2015 | £186,000 | £262,818 | 251 |
| 2014 | £183,000 | £259,617 | 261 |
| 2013 | £160,000 | £230,224 | 238 |
| 2012 | £160,000 | £235,500 | 221 |
| 2011 | £157,000 | £237,010 | 187 |
| 2010 | £160,000 | £250,921 | 185 |
| 2009 | £150,000 | £241,126 | 215 |
| 2008 | £159,000 | £260,635 | 159 |
| 2007 | £165,000 | £279,886 | 348 |
| 2006 | £163,500 | £283,815 | 447 |
| 2005 | £160,000 | £284,736 | 342 |
| 2004 | £155,000 | £281,510 | 337 |
| 2003 | £130,000 | £239,492 | 311 |
| 2002 | £112,000 | £210,727 | 333 |
| 2001 | £87,200 | £167,638 | 332 |
| 2000 | £82,000 | £160,925 | 403 |
| 1999 | £63,000 | £125,556 | 361 |
| 1998 | £60,000 | £121,114 | 333 |
| 1997 | £56,000 | £114,845 | 409 |
| 1996 | £49,000 | £103,339 | 253 |
| 1995 | £50,500 | £109,779 | 267 |
In cash terms the typical PO4 8 home went from £50,500 in 1995 to £290,000 in 2026, roughly 6 times the price. Inflation explains only part of it: in today's money the rise is still about 164%, a genuine increase in what a home here costs. The real-terms peak came in 2022, and today's median remains roughly 13% under it: a 2022 buyer is still waiting to get that price back in today's money.
Year-on-year change in the PO4 8 median
Each bar is the change on the year before, in cash. The zero line is the boundary between rising and falling.
The strongest year on record here is 2000 (+30.2% on the year before); the weakest, 2009 (−5.7%). Single-year swings like these are why the annualised table below matters more than any one year's headline.
Annualised returns
| Period | Cash, per year | Real terms, per year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 years (since 2025) | +7.4% | +4.9% |
| 5 years (since 2021) | +2.8% | −1.9% |
| 10 years (since 2016) | +3.8% | +0.4% |
| 20 years (since 2006) | +2.9% | +0.1% |
The table annualises median growth over each period, with the real column deflated by ONS CPIH. Smoothing hides the cycle (see the chart above for it), and none of this forecasts: it is the record.
How many homes change hands in PO4 8
How many homes change hands
Annual recorded sales. The post-2008 trough is the financial crisis; treat the final bar as provisional while registrations catch up.
Over the last twelve months of data, 98 sales completed in PO4 8. Like most of England and Wales, turnover never fully recovered from 2008: the market here averaged 357 sales a year before the financial crisis and 192 a year over the last five. Volume matters as much as price: when few homes change hands, the median gets jumpy and a single street can move the figure. The most recent year is always still filling in, because sales appear in the Land Registry weeks or months after completion.
What tenants pay around PO4 8
PO4 8 falls under Portsmouth, where the ONS puts the average private rent at £1,366 a month (May 2026 figures). A one-bed averages £899 a month here and a four-or-more-bed £1,961, so size does most of the work in setting the rent.
Average monthly rent by size, Portsmouth
ONS Price Index of Private Rents, May 2026.
£1,366 a month is £16,392 a year, which against the £290,000 median sold price makes a gross yield of 5.7%. Gross means before letting costs, voids, maintenance and tax: treat it as a ceiling. The ONS publishes rents by local authority, so neighbouring districts under the same authority share these numbers.
Reading the PO4 8 market
Against the PO4 district median, PO4 8 sits 8% higher, marking it as a dearer pocket of the district.
Asked and answered: PO4 8 (Milton)
Is PO4 8 (Milton) a good place to buy a house?
How much did a house sell for in PO4 8 (Milton)?
Are property prices falling in PO4 8 (Milton)?
Where do PO4 8 prices go next?
Nobody can tell you that, and this page will not pretend to. What the record shows: the median is up 15% over five years in cash but down 9% after inflation. If you are weighing a purchase, read the volume chart alongside the price one, and remember that every figure here is a completed sale, lagged by the weeks it takes the Land Registry to register it.
On the market in PO4 today
This is what you could actually buy today: 44 homes currently on the market from 7 agents publishing to HomesIndex.
These cover the whole PO4 district, not just PO4 8: live asking prices are collected per district.
Of everything listed here, 27% asks less than the sold record of comparable homes. Every listing is measured against recent recorded sales of similar nearby homes.
"Under comparable sales" compares each asking price with what similar homes nearby actually sold for. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a valuation. Always look at the home itself.
See every PO4 home for sale on the map →
Refreshed every Monday and Thursday from agents' own feeds to HomesIndex, so a sample of the market rather than all of it. An asking price remains an ask, not a sale.
What another bedroom costs in PO
Real sold prices by size across the PO area, straight from the Land Registry record. Size steps are fiercely local. A third bedroom adds a quarter to the price in some areas and close to four fifths in others, which is why no national rule of thumb survives contact with a real market.
| Type | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | 5 bed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detached | — | £350,000 | £475,000 (+36%) | £675,000 (+42%) | £900,000 (+33%) |
| Semi-detached | £273,250 | £305,000 (+12%) | £352,500 (+16%) | £430,000 (+22%) | £610,000 (+42%) |
| Terraced | £230,000 | £253,000 (+10%) | £290,000 (+15%) | £375,000 (+29%) | £498,750 (+33%) |
| Flat | £145,000 | £198,000 (+37%) | £290,000 (+46%) | £500,000 (+72%) | — |
Four years of recorded sales, split by built form and bedroom count. The register does not state bedrooms, so sizes come from each home's EPC record and a few homes will land one size out. Where too few homes exist to say anything meaningful, the cell is blank.
The risers and the fallers
The spread across the PO area is the point: the same five years treated these districts very differently.
PO area districts: five years of change
The districts that gained and lost most in cash terms, each row linking through to its own report.
Other sectors in PO4
A few minutes' walk can separate two very different markets. Here are PO4's other sectors, each with its own report:
| Sector | Median (latest) | Sales that year |
|---|---|---|
| PO4 0 | £239,000 | 59 |
| PO4 9 | £252,500 | 92 |
Zoom out to the full PO4 district report for the type split, monthly volumes and how PO4 compares with its neighbours.
Before you sell in PO4 8: what the record supports
Ground the asking price in real sold prices first. The average prices map gives a rough value in a minute: start at PO4 8's shading and zoom to the sold homes on the street itself. Agents work from this same Land Registry record when they value; this page puts it in front of you before they arrive.
Local estate agents: one agent per district gets the featured spot on this report, free for founding agents. Claim PO4 8.
Take it further
The AI answers from the same Land Registry data this report is built on, already scoped to PO4 8. Free after a one click sign in.
The live map plots every individual PO4 8 sale at its exact address, and the average prices map zooms from neighbourhood shading to single homes. For a specific question, the report tool writes a custom answer, and any sale's mortgage and rent calculator runs the numbers on a real purchase.
Method, briefly: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (Crown copyright, OGL v3.0) supplies every sale, geocoded to address level; CPIH from the ONS restates prices in today's money; ONS local-authority figures supply the rents. Medians of real sales, not valuations. No part of this page is financial advice.